Fact; replicas, counterfeits
and
fakes are usually manufactured for the lowest possible cost, using
sub standard materials and components, in sub standard
conditions, often by "unskilled" adults and children who are often
abused by their "employers".

Fact; the UK market in fakes, counterfeits and replicas is "run"
internationally by Chinese Triads, The Russian Mafia, Terrorist Groups and The Mafia.

Fact; the UK trade in replicas, counterfeits and fakes funds terrorism, murder and
numerous other criminal activities. In the same way that Prohibition
encouraged and helped the Mob to grow in the USA; purchasing fakes,
replicas and counterfeits funds terrorists and organised
crime.

Fact; UK Trading Standards are
often difficult to contact and rarely take action against fakes due
to limited resources and government cutbacks. UK Anti Piracy - Brand
Protection can and does report to and work with - help Trading
Standards to discover fakes, remove fakes - prosecute
counterfeiters.

Fact;
Many Brands ignore fakes or they fail to treat counterfeiting
issues seriously. They often treat losses due to counterfeits and
piracy as being a consequence of business. UK Anti Piracy believe
that Brands have a duty of care to resellers and to end users.

Many fakes are purchased from Chinese websites and resold in the UK
(often on eBay, Facebook etc).

Report Fakes, Seller Support has agreements in place with eBay,
Alibaba, Aliexpress and others where when we report fakes; they
remove them. In August 2016, we have launched dedicated facilities
to
remove fakes sold on alibaba.com and
remove fakes sold on aliexpress.com. However; we can only report
for specific partners because agreements have to be registered with
Alibaba Group.

Regarding eBay and others; we can act on reports from members of the
public.

Reporting Fakes

We Report Fakes to Brands

We Report Fakes to Law Enforcement

Google, eBay,
Facebook,
Many Others

We were;

Invited to join eBay IP
reporting

Invited to join Alibaba IP
reporting

Invited to join TaoBao IP
reporting

(invited by eBay, Alibaba and
Taobao)

We ask
people to tell us about counterfeits and fake goods, we will investigate - take
action completely free of charge and without revealing the
identity or contact details of the person who reported the
counterfeit - fake.

If people have bought counterfeit or
fake goods, we will help
them to try and obtain a full refund (without returning the item).

We work with manufacturers and legitimate companies via our
UK Brand Protection Service to
drive pirates out of business. We report counterfeiters, we
remove fakes.

UK Anti Piracy was founded after we purchased a Windows
Re-installation disk online (for a computer which had a legitimate
license). The disk looked legitimate and was used to re-install the
correct version of Windows (on a computer which had a legitimate
license), but along with Windows, the disk contained malware
(malicious software) which scanned the computer for entered bank
account and PayPal entries. The point is; "how many other pirated
disks contain malware, viruses etc"?

We now work with many major manufacturers, copyright license
holders, their legal departments,
UK Intellectual Property Lawyers, and government departments (such as Trading Standards) in
the battle against counterfeit goods, piracy, copyright infringements
and IP crime - copyright theft.

When we are sure that an infringement is occurring, we take
action. We will report fakes to
UK Business - Brand Protection partners. We will report piracy to facilitators (eg; auction sites which offer
the pirated goods for sales) and possibly the authorities and the media.

We
also work with search engines to remove pirate websites from online
listings.

We also
encourage people to report piracy to us directly (please see the
"Report UK Piracy"
section).

Report Fakes, Seller Support will investigate on behalf of
Veros Partners
(IP rights holders). These investigations can be both open and
secret (we can investigate the same case in numerous ways) in
order to identify Intellectual Property breaches and we can obtain evidence and take
appropriate action. Fake goods
come in many forms and from multiple sources. Eg; pirated
software and knockoff movies may be produced by a lone
counterfeiter (often
working in a "back room", kitchen, bedroom or shed) or a "counterfeiting
factory" with multiple DVD copying machines which clone CDs,
DVDs and Blu-ray disks.

Other pirates may purchase
counterfeit goods or fake
goods for re-sale from various websites.

We have direct links with major
search engines and we can report counterfeit goods directly. We
enjoy reporting facilities which are similar to the eBay Vero system
(after which our Veified Rights Owners Support - Veros Brand
Protection facility was
named). This
ensures that our reports are "acted upon" and the
facilitators
react swiftly. eg; We work with and report directly to Google
Adwords, eBay and others via dedicated facilities (we are recognised
as being experts and we do not use standard reporting facilities) to ensure that when we report
fakes and counterfeits, they are removed ASAP.

We hunt for and find fakes. We
report fakes and provide support and evidence against counterfeiters
and suppliers. We may also report fakes to the media newspapers,
forums and TV (eg Fake Britain).

We hunt for and amend - comment on
or remove inaccurate or false reviews of genuine products (eg; if
someone buys a fake item and then posts a review which mistakenly
attack the genuine product, we can intercede).

We hunt for and take action against
reviews of fake goods - counterfeit goods.

Fake
goods and counterfeit goods are often sourced from factories in
India, Russia or China
(Guangzhou - also known as Canton or
Kwangchow, China is arguably the counterfeiting capital
of the world). These fakes and counterfeits are purchased in bulk for resale in
the UK and are often supplied via organised counterfeiting
networks (eg; from Manchester or Salford). Sellers are usually aware of the true nature of their
stock but this may not always be the case because some suppliers
claim to be OEM factories and their stock is surplus or seconds.
However; in most cases, only "an idiot" would believe
this.

Indeed, in some tows, areas have grown to service the counterfeit
industry (such as Canal Street in New York and Bury New Road,
Manchester, UK).

It should also be noted that many
factories which produce counterfeit goods use sub-standard safety
systems, sub-standard materials, sub-standard working practices and
many force children to work in conditions which would not be
tolerated in a legitimate operation.

We support and notify governments about counterfeiting operations within their borders.
It is in the interests of national and regional governments to
address counterfeiting as it adversely affects both the national
image - national brand (eg; many people now consider Chinese goods as
being "cheap tat") and deters inventors and entrepreneurs.
Additionally, in many cases the counterfeits are produced and
distributed by illegal organisations such as the Triads, the Russian
Mafia or "the Mob". No taxes are paid and workers are commonly
abused.

The Chinese Government is now taking
action against the counterfeiters.

Other
counterfeits - fake goods include
fake oils and liquids (such as fake brake fluid). In these cases, low quality products are often
transferred to Premium grade containers (eg; low quality oil used
to fill premium grade oil containers and this is then sold as
fake premium grade oil). In such cases, the buyer is obviously
risking serious damage to his car - or worse.

Eg; we recently identified fake car clutches. These clutches were
significantly cheaper than genuine items and would certainly have
worked (but only for a short time). When the clutch failed it may
well have caused damage and the customer would obviously have needed
to have a replacement fitted. As is usually the case with fake car parts; fitting a fake clutch is false economy.

Some Chinese companies even
openly produce and sell blatant copies of Western vehicles such as Honda
Motorcycles and BMW Cars (yes; full size counterfeit Honda
Motorcycles and Counterfeit BMW Cars). BMW has taken legal action in
China against a company which was selling copies of the BMW X5 -
they lost. It is little wonder therefore, that sub standard
copies of car parts are being sold in the UK.

Potentially
the worst counterfeit goods (in terms of danger to human life) is
probably counterfeit medicines and fake medicines. UK Anti Piracy will also work with
legitimate medicine companies - Veros Partners and law enforcement agencies to combat the
threat from fake medicines and counterfeits - fake goods and piracy in general.

Most high volume production of Russian
counterfeit goods is concentrated in Moscow, the Voronezh regions
and the North Caucasus and counterfeiters often operate openly.

In our experience, issues are rarely resolved by
simply reporting to a business or authority.
Our services are not restricted to providing
support and protection against fakes. We are pleased to support
a potentially massively powerful facility for
individuals and organisations to publish open letters
and genuine reviews online.

This facility is intended to empower people. By
publicising issues you stand a much better chance of
contacting genuine decision makers - people of
influence and of resolving issues or of credit being
received by the right people..